New York Times to return award for podcast on terrorism
19 Dec 2020
Gulf Today Report
In an era when a tsunami of news swamps social media, it can be hard to differentiate between what’s fake and the genuine article. Despite applying the rigorous standards of editing and fact-checking, there can be slip-ups sometimes. Result: tall stories grab the headlines. Fake news takes centre stage, as happened with a podcast of the New York Times.
The New York Times admitted on Friday that it could not verify the claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for Daesh in Syria was a central part of its 2018 podcast Caliphate.”
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NEW YORK The New York Times admitted Friday that it could not verify the claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for the Islamic State in Syria was a central part of its 2018 podcast “Caliphate.”
The series had won a Peabody Award, the first ever for a podcast produced by the newspaper, but within hours administrators said the Times would return the award. The Overseas Press Club of America said it was rescinding its honor for “Caliphate.”
With a major hole blown in the narrative, the Times affixed an audio correction to the beginning of each part of the 12-part podcast and published an investigation into what went wrong with the story in Friday’s newspaper. The story’s central reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, will be reassigned off the terrorism beat, the Times said.
An institutional failing, says New York Times on its Caliphate podcast that didn t meet standards
An institutional failing, says New York Times on its Caliphate podcast that didn t meet standards
The Caliphate podcast series had won a Peabody Award, the first ever for a podcast produced by the newspaper. The New York Times would now be returning the award.
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UPDATED: December 19, 2020 17:27 IST
The New York Times has admitted that it could not verify claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for the Islamic State in Syria was a central part of its 2018 podcast Caliphate . (Photo: AFP)
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FILE - Andy Mills, left, and Rukmini Callimachi hold the award for their 2018 podcast âCaliphateâ at the 78th annual Peabody Awards in New York on May 18, 2019. The New York Times says it was wrong to trust the story of a Canadian man whose claims of witnessing and participating in atrocities as a member of the Islamic State was a central part of its award-winning 2018 podcast âCaliphate.â The 12-part series won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. But it began to unravel when Canadian authorities in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry on charges of perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He was included in the podcast under the alias Abu Huzayfah. The Times said its journalists should have done a better job vetting him, and not included his story as part of the podcast. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, FIle)
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